Registration is open for a 24-hour long conference-a-thon to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) on 8 March 2025. The event will feature the work of over sixty photography scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts in a free, online, global, 24-hour symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 to contemporary practitioners in 2024. This unique event aims to highlight the diverse and impactful work of women and female-identifying photographers, and those working with photography, across many different cultures and time zones.
The conference-a-thon had been put together by scholars Dr Rose Teanby from the UK and Dr Kris Belden-Adams of University of Mississippi. It features speakers from across the globe including New Zealand and Australia, Asia, Europe and the UK, Canada, North and South America, following IWD as it moves through the Earth's time zones. All time zones enter International Women’s Day, 8 March, from 0800-1100 (UTC).
Split into three sections, the 15-minute papers, plus two longer keynotes, look at different themes and techniques through the lens of women from photography's announcement in 1839, others focus on individual women photographers from the C19th, C20th and C21st centuries, soem take a geographical approach, and other papers provide an opportunity to hear from contemporary women photographers, artists and practitioners. The keynotes are being delivered by South African/UK-based photographer Jillian Edelstein who will discuss her own practice and what photography means to her; and Dr. Katherine Manthorne who will discuss Civil War era New Yorkers.
All the speakers will be recorded and the rceordings will be made available to registrants only, allowing them to catch up with any talks that they might miss.
The programme, paper abstracts and speaker biographies are all available to review.
Take a look at the full programme and register here: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotography/2025/
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